Ok i have slack 10.2 installed on an old toshiba laptop that is a pentium not sure of much else on the system except i put a larger hd in it. pcmia works and i have a lucent wireless card that is branded by compaq. i cant get it to ping and i cant get it to let me manually change the ip...i want to say that i was able to ping in the past but i cannot remember what i did...this was a project that kind of got set aside for a while. ny network consists of a dlink wireless router that has to stay encrytped...i triple checked that the encrytion key was correct and that i have the right essid.

here are some outputs

ifconfig

eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr00:02:A5:6E:0F:7F
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500
Metric:1
RX packets:7330 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2374708 (2.2 Mb) TX bytes:0(0.0 b)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x100

lo
Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:916 (916.0b) TX bytes:916(916.0b)

iwconfig

lo
no wireless extensions

eth0
IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"my network" Nickname:
"darkstar"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz
Access Point:00:40:05:B8:65:25
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15dBm
Senitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
Encryption key:my key
Power Managment: off
Link Quality=26/92 Signal level=-71 dBm
Noise level--97 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0
Rx invalid frag:10
Tx excessive retiries:0 Invalid misc:0
Missed beacon:0

if i need to post more outputs let me know

thanks

after you setup your card by using iwconfig, you might need to run dhcpcd to get a new IP

thanks...that worked...i am now on the network and can ping outside sites. on to the next step


will these settings hold when i shut down the machine or do i need to modify some files to hold these settings?

To make your settings hold for the next boot, please have a look at to the following documentation:

http://slackbook.org/html/network-co...ion-tcpip.html

thanks...i looked at it breifly and it is exactly what i needed. thanks again to all